"Cressida can't stand the fact that everywhere she goes, someone takes a picture of her on their smartphone especially when she is feeling down," a friend told Vanity Fair.

"She has been told it's OK for her to take some time off work."

But this isn't the first time a royal girlf has been given a little leeway at work after a much publicised split. Back in 2007 when Kate Middleton, the now Duchess of Cambridge, briefly called it quits with Prince William she was given time off from her accessories buying job at Jigsaw so she could dodge the paps camped outside head office.

In fact, the constant intrusion into her private life is thought to be one of the BIG reasons behind Cressida and Hazza's split, with a pal telling VF: "We do worry that Cressida doesn't have a thick-enough skin to be a royal girlfriend."